I had a requirement on Centos5 to jail sftp users only to see their home directory during the sftp operations, so I performed the steps narrated in Enabled chroot as follows: section, which eventually ...

I have a website which is hosted in local Server (CentOS 5.x) (Hostname: xxx.yyy.local, IP : 192.168.5.25). I can browse the site typing server ip in the browser from my Local Network.
How can I get ...

I run private KVM/OpenVZ hosting and im currently having issues with it. So I opened a ticket with virtualizor and they say they cant access the VNC connections, but I can. I figured the only thing ...

I have CentOS 5.5 32 bit. I have a service provider that enables NTP on their routers. They have checked and doubled check their access list and I can ping the time servers but I'm getting a strange ...

I am trying to use logrotate to keep audit logs for a set period of time rather than using auditd's special rotation (from /etc/audit/auditd.conf). I have changed the max_log_file_action to IGNORE in ...

we have this strange issue. We use perl script for human-readable time-stamp in dmesg (taken from http://linuxaria.com/article/how-to-make-dmesg-timestamp-human-readable) and I also tried this one ( ...

Background: My employer is using a cloud-based database server through a service called Rackspace. This server is accessed by our other servers via ssh. Our network admins are unreachable for the next ...

I want to install wireshark version which is higher than 1.2 since I need to analyse the iec104 packets (only version higher than 1.2 supports this). I am using CentOS 5.7 version and it only supports ...

I am trying to host an ASP.NET Web Forms application using Mono. I have installed Mono 3.0.7 and XSP 2.10.2 from source into the /usr/bin directory. I then started the mono server with the following ...

I have a VPS running on centos 5 with 2 GB ram. I run a IP.Board forum on that server. Recently my server was hacked and I had to format the disk and start again. I was using APC cache before and it ...

I've just purchased a new VPS and they've, for some unknown reason, installed PHP version 5.3.3. I'm fine with being on version 5.3.X, but I believe the latest version is 5.3.29.
I did some Googling ...

I want a folder to have 777 permission and every time a new file or folder gets created inside that should have the same user and group with 777 permission.
I tried the following but it does not get ...

I'm trying to update a CentOS 5 system in order to patch the bash vulnerability described in CVE-2014-6271 / RHSA-2014:1293-1, but am running into an issue.
After seemingly-successfully updating bash ...

Installed a fresh CentOS 5.10 installation on RAID5 provided by Perc H700 Integrated RAID, however the system fails to boot.
Checked the system via recovery CD, and noticed that CentOS 5.10 now uses ...

I am not a server guy and currently maintaining a small server for my own needs (Development and testing).
I got a notification that my Server CPU usuage is around 99% from last 3+ hours.I know that ...

I need an advice on how to compile gcc 4.1.2 on a CentOS 5.10.
The long story:
I've a got a Citrix XenServer Creedence beta 1 up and running OK. It has actually CentOS 5.10 as the dom0. This can be ...